Basically: Actor Dick Wilson, who played Mr Whipple in a long-running series of Charmin bath tissue commercials, has died of natural causes at the age of 91 years.
Giles: "We few, we happy few."
Spike: "We band of buggered."
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One evening I was in a North Hollywood grocery store back before those Charmin ads started appearing on TV and was startled to see down one aisle a film camera and lights set up and a man chastising a woman who had a package of paper towels in her hands. I didn't quite hear the catch phrase so it was not until I saw it on TV that I knew what was being filmed there.
I started my first full-time high school teaching position in 1981, which was in the era of "Mr. Whipple" and the "Please don't squeeze the Charmin" comercials. I'm not sure why, but the kids in my class kept bringing this up. They thought that they were really being funny. I tried to convince them that polynomials were actually more fun, and that was a very hard sell. Rest in peace, Mr Whipple.
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